16 Mar
2023
16 Mar
'23
3:05 p.m.
FSF does not enforce anything. I repeatedly begged for help with Desktop
CYBER which was GPL licensed and they did not even bother to reply.
Tom Hunter
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 7:46 AM Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mar 14, 2023, at 10:57 PM, Jonathan Chapman
via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it
isn't a knockoff, it's the system working as intended.
What is it when the design is open source, but they're not complying
with the terms of the license? That's what really bugs me, the
"cost" of
producing your own from one of our designs is attribution and releasing
your design under the same or a compatible license, but apparently that's
too much to ask.
Thanks,
Jonathan
You're talking about GPL or equivalent there -- for which the FSF has at
times been the enforcer. BSD style licenses require next to nothing of
people copying (in particular, they don't require releasing the derived
work).
Personally I'm partial to BSD style licenses, though some of my open
source work was originally licensed under GPL. (I may change that at some
point if I want to bother.) That means I'm accepting the possibility that
someone could copy what I did and sell it as a closed product. Fine, so be
it (that doesn't close what I did, of course).
paul